JOSEPH (C LINE-Immigrant father) (1682 / 1741) IMMIGRANT FATHER FROM ZWEIBRUCKEN, (PALATINATE) GERMANY. (POSSIBLY BORN IN LANGNAU, OR, JURA REGION OF SWITZERLAND) M - ANNA MARIA BUGH (BUCH / PUGH ?) (1693 / )

2D. JOHN F. FLORY (1) ( - -1718 / - -1781) IMMIGRANT SON

3D. ABRAHAM 6-2-1749 / - - 1813

M-CHRISTINA

3E. CATHERINE 5-10-1750 / M-SEBASTION DUNKLER

3F. FANNY 7-31-1751 / * *

3G. JOHN (SECOND) 5-3-1753 / 5-12-1831 M-SUSANNA

3T. RACHAEL 2-18-1771 / 3 - - 1866

M- CHRISTOFFEL FLORY 1765 / 1843

(NOTE: RACHAEL MARRIED HER FATHER’S COUSIN, CHRISTOPHER, WHO WAS 6 YEARS HER SENIOR AND BORE HIM 11 CHILDREN)

( * * ) = EVIDENCE SUPPORTS THESE CHILDREN NEVER REACHED ADULTHOOD.

JOHN AND HIS WIFE, ANNA MARY, WERE BAPTIZED INTO THE CONESTOGA CHURCH OF THE BRETHEREN IN 1747. HE WROTE HIS WILL ON MAY 10, 1780, NINE YEARS AFTER HIS LAST CHILD WAS BORN, IN HIGH GERMAN AND RECORDED IT IN THE LANCASTER COUNTY COURTHOUSE, BOOK 1, VOLUME 1, PAGE 145, AND WAS RETURNED BY HIS WIDOW LESS THAN ONE YEAR LATER. JOHN IS BURIED AT THE IMMIGRANT CEMETERY IN RAPHO TWP., LANCASTER COUNTY. THE FOLLOWING ARE SECTIONS OF HIS WILL.

...AFTER MY FUNERAL EXPENSES ARE PAID AND DISCHARGED, THEN I GIVE MY EFFECTS IN MANNER FOLLOWING; MY WIFE, ANNA SHALL HAVE A RIGHT TO LIVE IN THE HOUSE I NOW LIVE BUT THE CELLAR SHALL BE ONLY 1/2 TO HER USE DURING HER WIDOWHOOD AND FURTHER SHE SHALL HAVE 2 BEDS AND BEDSTEADS WITH ALL THINGS THERE BELONGING, ALSO THE CLOCK, THE STOVE WITH THE TONGS AND SHOVEL, ALL ER WEARING APPAREL, - ALL MY KITCHEN FURNITURE CONSISTING OF IRON OR COPPER, ALL WOODEN KITCHEN FURNITURE AS BUCKETS AND TUBS, ALL GLASSES AND BOTTLES AND LANTHORN, ALL MY LINEN AND YARN, BY CLOTHES PRESS, KITCHEN DRESSER WITH ALL THE PEWTER AND EARTHENWARE ON IT, ALSO MY COPPER KETTLE, THE SPINNING WHEEL, AND REEL, BY FINE FLAX HACKEL AND COTTON CARDS, DOUGH TROUGH AND BREAD BASKETS, TWO BEEHIVES WITH BEES, A TABLE AND CHAIRS, DUNGHOOK AND FORK, ONE SPADE AND SHOVEL, FIVE BAGS, A DILLIARD AND PEPPER MILL, TWO CANDLE STICKS AND LAMP, THE YOUNG ORCHARD WITH BENEFIT OF TREES, TWO BARRELS AT HER CHOICE, ALSO THE VINEGAR KEG AND THE SMALL WHISKEY KEG AND AL 11 GALLON KEG AND 3 GUM KEGS, THE WATERING IHANIM, ONE COW AT HER CHOICE, ALL MY DRIED MEAT - ALSO TWO HOGS - ALL THE ABOVE ARTICLES MY WIFE SHALL HAVE AFOREHAND FURTHER SHE SHALL HAVE YEARLY OUT OF MY ESTATE, AFTER MY DECEASE, 10 BUSHELS OF WHEAT, 5 BUSHELS OF RYE, 10 BUSHELS OF BUCKWHEAT, 5 BUSHELS OF INDIAN CORN, ALSO SMALL GARDENJ AS MUCH AS SHE PLEASES AND DUNG TO BE HAULED TO HER GARDEN, TWO BARRELS OF GOOD CIDER, 5 BUSHELS OF GOOD WINTER APPLES OF HER CHOICE AND SWEET APPLES TO MAKE 2 BUSHELS OF DRIED APPLES, ALSO THE PIECE OF MEADOW AT THE OLD HOUSE ON THE RIGHT SIDE TO HAVE IT FOR GRASS, 5 GALLON LIQUOR, 5 BUSHELS POTATOES, 10 POUNDS OF HACKELT HEMP AND 5 POUNDS HACKELT FLAX IF ANY IS RAISED ON LAND AND TURNS OUT GOOD, 1/2 BUSHEL SALT, 5 POUNDS WOOL, 50 POUNDS GOOD FAT BEEF, 1 TON OF HAY AND 1 TON OF SECOND CROP WHERE SHE SHOOSES IT ON THE MEADOW AND SHALL BE DELIVERED TO STABLE TO WHICH SHE SHALL HAVE A RIGHT AS GOOD AS I HAVE IT ALSO AS MUCH SHORT STRAW AS SHE HAS NEED OF AND IF EGGS ARE PLENTY THEN TO GIVE HER EVERY WEEK 1 1/2 DOZEN, IF SCARCE, ONLY 1 DOZEN WEEKLY, ALSO FIRE WOOD DELIVERED TO HER HOUSE AS MUCH AS SHE NEEDS OF ALL TO BE SPLIT 2 1/2 FEET LONG, ALSO GRAIN IS TO BE DELIVERED TO MILL AND FLOUR BACK TO HER HOUSE. MY DAUGHTER RACHAEL SHALL HAVE A RIGHT TO LIVE IN THE HOUSE WHITH HER MOTHER AS LONG AS SHE WILLS OR AS LONG AS HER MOTHER PLEASES, ALSO THE LITTLE CORNER CUPBOARD IN THE ROOM, MY TESTAMENT, AND MY HYMN BOOK AND MY BIBLE I GIVE TO MY SON JOHN.

I FURTHER ORDER AND DIRECT THAT IN ONE YEAR AFTER MY DECEASE, THE BALANCE OF MY LAND AND PLANTATION SHALL BE SOLD AND PARCELED AND 100 POUNDS MONEY (ABOUT $175 DOLLARS) RAISED SHALL BE PAID TO MY WIFE IN MANNER FOLLOWING - SUM OF 5 POUNDS. ($8.70) YEARLY UNTIL 100 POUNDS MONEY ARE PAID. THE REMAINDER OF MONEY RAISED BY SAID LAND SHALL BE PAID TO MY NONE DAUGHTERS. MY SON ABRAHAM SHALL HAVE PIECE OF LAND MARKED FOR HIM OUT OF MY SAID LAND ON NORTH SIDE OF HIM AND FOR HIS SECOND SHARE, 3 POUNDS MONEY ($5.30) - NO MORE AND THESE TWO ARTICLES SHALL BE HIS WHOLE SHARE. MY SON JOHN SHALL HAVE 21 1/2 ACRES GIVEN HIM AS HIS ENTIRE SHARE - NO MORE.

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